Lemurs lose weight with 'life-extending' supplement

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 04:31 in Health & Medicine

The anti-obesity properties of resveratrol have been demonstrated for the first time in a primate. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Physiology studied the compound, generated naturally by plants to ward off pathogens, which has received much interest as a dietary supplement for its supposed life-extending effects...

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